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Writer's pictureNayanesh Gupte

दामोदर - Damoder

Updated: Mar 29, 2021

As a part of my usual routine I was doing my daily chores and and listening to songs devoted to Shri Krishna. All of a sudden I started wondering about name दामोदर. I have absolutely no idea why though. That thought just vanished like many other thoughts those keep surfacing on mind.


Later in the evening around 05:30 pm, I was on a call for office meeting when Subrat - our neighbour, was trying to reach out to me on phone. As I couldn't pick the call he dropped me a message saying the books I had requested for are with him and he can come to our place to hand over them.

I was extremely delighted and immediately responded him saying I will come to his place and collect them around 06:30 - 07:00 pm.


After I wrapped up my work for the day around 07:00 - 07:30 pm and around 08:00 pm I visited Subrat's place. As we started speaking, Subrat being passionate devotee of ISKCON , enlightened me about things I had very limited or no knowledge. e.g. He spoke about Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his lifetime, Mantra and chanting , his work around books distribution etc etc and then he got engaged attending online meeting with people from temple.


Meanwhile I was having a conversation with his wife Sneha who works as an Admin with Basilwood International School which is affiliated to Cambridge University, UK , run and managed by ISKCON. Meanwhile topic jumped to Shri Krishna again and we were talking about Karthik month being auspicious and she told me about a small story from Shri Krishna's childhood.

 
Yashoda Mata binds Shri Krishna to wooden pounder (उखळ). Bal Krishna lets her bind him with a rope (दाम) around his tummy (उदर). That's how Shri Krishna got his name दामोदर.
 

I still wonder how Sneha ended up telling me it again on the same day 🙂

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